Penile gangrene due to improper application of a condom catheter: a case report

BACKGROUND: Fournier’s gangrene is a rare, fulminant, and usually localized necrotizing soft tissue polymicrobial infection of the perineum, with occasional extension up to the abdominal wall. CASE PRESENTATION: We describe an unusual case of penile gangrene in a 64-year-old Tunisian man suffering f...

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Autores principales: Chaker, Kays, Ouanes, Yassine, Rinchi, Makram, Cherni, Nizar, Bibi, Mokhtar, Dali, Kheireddine Mrad, Nouira, Yassine
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2023
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9887821/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36717875
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13256-023-03771-x
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author Chaker, Kays
Ouanes, Yassine
Rinchi, Makram
Cherni, Nizar
Bibi, Mokhtar
Dali, Kheireddine Mrad
Nouira, Yassine
author_facet Chaker, Kays
Ouanes, Yassine
Rinchi, Makram
Cherni, Nizar
Bibi, Mokhtar
Dali, Kheireddine Mrad
Nouira, Yassine
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description BACKGROUND: Fournier’s gangrene is a rare, fulminant, and usually localized necrotizing soft tissue polymicrobial infection of the perineum, with occasional extension up to the abdominal wall. CASE PRESENTATION: We describe an unusual case of penile gangrene in a 64-year-old Tunisian man suffering from urinary incontinence secondary to cerebrovascular accident. Gangrene developed due to continuous tourniquet effect on the penis caused by a condom catheter. Although source control was achieved with aggressive debridement, careful wound care, and wide-spectrum antibiotherapy, the patient died due to septic shock. CONCLUSION: Use of condom catheters is not without complications. Careful placement, strict hygiene, and regular monitoring of the local condition are necessary.
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spelling pubmed-98878212023-02-01 Penile gangrene due to improper application of a condom catheter: a case report Chaker, Kays Ouanes, Yassine Rinchi, Makram Cherni, Nizar Bibi, Mokhtar Dali, Kheireddine Mrad Nouira, Yassine J Med Case Rep Case Report BACKGROUND: Fournier’s gangrene is a rare, fulminant, and usually localized necrotizing soft tissue polymicrobial infection of the perineum, with occasional extension up to the abdominal wall. CASE PRESENTATION: We describe an unusual case of penile gangrene in a 64-year-old Tunisian man suffering from urinary incontinence secondary to cerebrovascular accident. Gangrene developed due to continuous tourniquet effect on the penis caused by a condom catheter. Although source control was achieved with aggressive debridement, careful wound care, and wide-spectrum antibiotherapy, the patient died due to septic shock. CONCLUSION: Use of condom catheters is not without complications. Careful placement, strict hygiene, and regular monitoring of the local condition are necessary. BioMed Central 2023-01-31 /pmc/articles/PMC9887821/ /pubmed/36717875 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13256-023-03771-x Text en © The Author(s) 2023 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Open AccessThis article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) . The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) ) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated in a credit line to the data.
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Ouanes, Yassine
Rinchi, Makram
Cherni, Nizar
Bibi, Mokhtar
Dali, Kheireddine Mrad
Nouira, Yassine
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title_full Penile gangrene due to improper application of a condom catheter: a case report
title_fullStr Penile gangrene due to improper application of a condom catheter: a case report
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title_short Penile gangrene due to improper application of a condom catheter: a case report
title_sort penile gangrene due to improper application of a condom catheter: a case report
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9887821/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36717875
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13256-023-03771-x
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